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...Crimson, which is looking to repeat last season’s championship-winning success, dropped in a heartbreaking 24-22 loss to the Bears. A late fourth-quarter drive ended with a Harvard touchdown and a flag on the play—personal foul, roughing the passer. So with the penalty yardage, the Crimson was poised on the one-and-a-half-yard line, aiming to tie the score at 24, and likely sending the game into overtime. Memories of 2005’s double-overtime showdown of the two teams were being recalled around the press...
...It’s an unbelievable feeling,” Brown coach Phil Estes said. “Sometimes it’s a little bit disbelief. You know you want to make sure it didn’t cross the goal line. You keep looking, was there a flag? You want to believe it all, I mean it wasn’t until the last snap [that I believed].”Harvard had just completed a 15-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in a 3-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Liam O’Hagan...
...poisons: if not support for Iraq, then increased focus on Afghanistan. As voters in countries like Canada, Britain, and France have made clear, being against the war entirely can still be a viable alternative. It would be a grave error to mistake a laurel leaf for a white flag. For the time being, however, any discussion at all would be preferable to the bizarre public neglect of a country with which we are still at war. U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has himself stated explicitly that it is not Afghanistan that takes priority...
...does so with such a heavy hand that it’s impossible not to feel as if you’re being bludgeoned by a postcolonial hammer. “Like the Englishmen who named streets in Kerala after their wives, like the Americans who shoved their flag in the moon. It was a warning from Allah,” Smith writes in “White Teeth.” The imperial imagery is nice, but it’d also be nice to discover the parallels myself instead of having them shoved down my proverbial throat.This leads...
...latter.And the goal, tallied in the 77th minute of the final on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Egypt’s immortal Mohamed Aboutrika, sent a country into pandemonium.While the coffee shop turned sports-bar jumped for joy, while the red, white, and black of Egypt’s flag waved from the balconies in the crowded streets of Cairo, I sat and watched. When the final whistle blew, the city erupted. It seemed, I told my friend, that all of Egypt was out tonight, dancing, jumping, and singing in the streets.I had been in Egypt for just about...